Endoscopic ultrasound and computer tomography are inaccurate methods of classifying cystic pancreatic lesions

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-44

  Gerke, H ^a   Jaffe, T A ^a   Mitchell, R M ^a   Byrne, M F ^a   Stiffler, H L ^a   Branch, M S ^a   Baillie, J ^a   Jowell, P S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerised tomography; Endosonography; Interobserver variation; Pancreatic cyst

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREAS DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33744772939     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2005.09.023     Document Type: Article

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